Super cheap vacuum chamber for degassing.

[jason_r]

While looking for ideas on building myself a vacuum chamber I could
see into, I ran across this:

http://www.donjarrs-place.com/07-how-to-vacpot

Seems perfect for degassing small batches of resin before casting, and it's
a real cheap design. Add a cutoff valve and it'd probably hold a vacuum more than long enough.

 

[Skye]

Cool! Here's another cheap device that works:

Put the pot in a gallon bag, suck away.

 

[rjwolfe3]

Thanks for the link, have to add that to my list.

Skye, I have that exact thing still sitting unopened on my casting cart lol.

 

[joeatact]

This is what I started with:

 

[ldubia]

This is what I started with:

Are the castings kosher then?

 

[ldb2000]

After Skye posted his thread about the Reynolds vac I told my wife about it and she bought me one . It works great for doing a few blanks at a time with Minwax wood hardner here's one that I did with it . This wood was unturnable before I stablized it .



Here's a link to the SYOP thread about it . http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=42014